Vat-drier.



' S. WILLSON.

VAT DRIER. APPLICATION FILED SEPT.2I. x914.

' Patented Aug. 24, 1915.

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SAMUEL TULLY WILLSON, OF NEW YORK, N.

VAT-DRIER.

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Specification of Letters Patent.

Tiateinted Au". 2%, 1915.

I Application filed September 21, 1914 Serial No. 862,826.

Be it known that I, SAMUEL TULLY \VILL- eitizen of" the United States of America. and a resident of the borough of Brooklyn of the city of New York, inthe countv of Kings and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Yat-Driers, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to heating devices and especially to that class of heaters, used for drying vats. such as are used in brewcries.

The object of the invention is to provide a device which is portable, which may be introduced into a vat through the usual man hole, in which complete combustion takes place, in which combustionis entirely independent of the air within the vat. In which fluid fuel is used. The fluid fuel and air for combustion being conveyed to the heater from the outside. Complete control of combustion being possible without entering the vat during the heating process.

With these and other objects in view, the invention comprises new and novel constructions, combinations and arrangements of parts, as will be hereinafter more fully described and claimed.

in the drawings ligure 1 is a transverse section through A l) of Fig. Fig. 2 is an outside elevation showing my improved vat drier together with flexible metal tube, through which fluid fuel and air are supplied to the heater and also the fuel and air' cocks by which their proportions are controlled.

Like characters of reference designate corresponding parts throughout both views.

In its preferred embodiment the improved heater forming the subject matter of this application, comprises a hexagonal-body in two parts, the top part 1, and the bottom part 2. The two parts are bolted together as at 3 forming a combustionchamber which is entirely inclosed except for openings i which occur at each end. The door .5 is supplied to facilitate lighting the burner (i which may be arranged to burn various kinds of fluid fuels. The fluid fuel and air are supplied through a flexible tube 7 with valve 8 to control the air supply and an off-- set cock 5) to control the iluid fuel supply.

the heater is introduced into the vat.

the burner has been lighted at a convenient location near the man hole, through which The carriage has a body 10 supplied with a baffle 12 intermediate of its top and bottom to prevent an excess of heat striking the floor of the vat.

In operating this device the carriage is first introduced through the man hole. The heater is then introduced and placed upon the carriage, the burner is then lighted through the door 5 and proper adjustment of fuel and air made. The carriage with the heater in place is then rolled by aid of the flexible tube which is somewhat stifi' or by use of a rod to a position near the center of the vat. The proper adjustment of the burner is easily determined by observation of the flame issuing from the openings 4 in the ends of the heater.

The burner 6 forms a support for the heater body 10 along one side thereof and rests freely in a curved seat on the carriage while the other side of the heater body 10 is provided with supports which rest freely in a curved seat at the other side of the carriage and are engaged therewith by depending lugs which prevent the heater body from moving endwise of the carriage when the latter is placed thereon. The burner being located at one side of the heater body the flames issuing therefrom sweep around the interior of the heater body from one side to the other side thereof. The heater body being detachable, a carriage and heater body, v

each of about the dimensions of the man hole, may be employed.

Having thus described my invention the following is What I claim as new therein and desire to secure by Letters Patent:

1. A vat drier comprising a heater body, a burner located and providing a support at one side of the heater body, supports.

located heater body,

air supp1y. and fluid fuel valves, the location of the burner at one side of the heater causing theflamesissuing therefrom to sweep upwardly from one side around the interior of the heater body.

2. A 'vatdrier comprising a hexagonal a burner located and providing a support at one side of theheater body,= supports located at the other side of the heater'body and a tube connected with the burner having air supply and fluid fuel valves.

7 3.- A vat drier comprising formed with a bottom part, a top part detachable from the bottom part, a burner located and providing a support at one side of the bottompart, Supports located at the other side of the bottom part and a tube connected with the burner having air supply and fluid fuel valves.

4, A vat drier comprising a carriage having curved seats one at each side thereof and a heater body. having side supports whereby it is detachably mounted on said curved seats and spaced from the carriage.

5. A vat'drier comprising a carriage having a curved seat at'each side th reof and a heater body having a burner e cupying Copies otthis patent may be obtained for H tli'e other-side of the'heater body 7 and a tube connected with the burner having a heater body five cents each,

one curved and supports occupying the other curved seat.

6. A vat drier compr sing a heater body 7 I for riage constructed to supporta heater body, a

a heater body separable from said carriage,

supports between the carriage and heater body for supporting said heater body upon and spaced from the carriage, a fuel burner mounted in the heater body, and a fuel supply tube connected with the burner.

Signed at New York, borough of Brooklyn in the county of Kings and State of New York this 18th day of September AHD.

- SAMUEL TULLY WILLSON.

Witnesses:

ANNA E. Goon,

EDWARD J. MOLLER.

by addressing the Commissioner of Patents.

Washington, D. G." 

